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MP3 loading testsIn a previous thread, Spector says: "The loss of an mp3 file is nothing compared to the loss from an old audio cassette tape. " Dunny says: "Which i…
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MP3s can be of a great variation in quality - drop ... fall within a much cruder set of specifications in terms of sound ... jack of a PC is a totally inappropriate way of loading games for a ... of mp3, ignore them and say that Uncle Spector knows best! :D -
CSS Gurus?Are there any CSS gurus out there who would like a challenge? My Telecomsoft web site (The Bird Sanctuary) is in need of a design and style overhaul…
... out there who would like a challenge?
My ... Sanctuary) is in need of a design and style overhaul after ... 4 and a half years. I've ... to learn the real intricacies of CSS and spruce up ... and feel the way I'd really like to.
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Retro musicThis morning I was listening to a radio programme on techno music, heard a song and a tear ran down my cheek. I'd swear it was just a bunch of AY chi…
... was listening to a radio programme on techno ... music, heard a song and a tear ran down ... my cheek. I'd swear it was just a ... bunch of AY chips, a guy singing and a ... sounded just like something out of a 128 game!
These sounded great...Torstum's post about a hypthetical new micro-computer (on this forum) reminded me of something, but rather than post in that thread, I thought I'd ma…
... , I thought I'd make a seperate thread as it ... cable, I saw a demonstration of a proto-type of a brilliant invention; glasses ... and probably slow - you'd want to ditch hard discs ... time anyway, so we'd have no need to ... think of it, there'd probably be no need of an ...PIC programmer for the Spectrum?Hi all, Does anyone know of a PIC programmer for the Spectrum ? ([url]http://microchip.com/[/url]) I'd like to program (burn) PIC chips (to be more …
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Does anyone know of a PIC programmer for the Spectrum ... ://microchip.com/[/url])
I'd like to program (burn) PIC ... don't want to buy a PC for just that, besides ... really like the quick startup of my Spectrum. ;)Spectrum games for saleAnyone want any of the following? If so, please make me an offer. Pole Position Groucho (no inlay) Wizard`s Lair Universal Hero Storm Bringer Splat!…
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Caves of Doom
Soul of a Robot
Wally Kong ... II
N.O.M.A.D.
Cavelon
Mr ... br /> Chronos
The Runes of Zendos
Marsport
Underwurlde ... Planets, Bubble Run,
Discs of Death, Stainless Steel)
Dandy ...Ideas for possible entries for CSSCGC 2006Has anybody got any good ideas for possible entries to the comp.sys.sinclair Crap Game Competition 2006? (CSSCGC 2006?) Here's a few of the ideas I'…
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Here's a few of the ideas I've come ... follow the hilarious antics of a blind man as he ... attempts to do a whole range of different things
... It Into A Multi-National In A Short Space of Time and ... just thought I'd share some of the ideas with others ...Questioning CCSLet's continue discussing some titles from the publisher that I like most of all - CCS. Let's also keep this discussion to what it's about, or I'll …
... proof for this one? I'd love to hear about it ... had always thought this was a case of a cancelled release (reviewed prior ... more details for now. Games of Strategy are compilations obviously, I ... out shortly. Most likely a reissue of the Charlie Charlie releases, ...Speccy, a new Spectrum emulator for Symbian S60 3rd Edition smartphonesThose of you with Symbian S60 3rd Edition smartphones may have been suffering from the lack of a Spectrum emulator. All the existing emus were writte…
... been suffering from the lack of a Spectrum emulator. All the existing ...
Luckily someone's ported a PC emulator called (rather confusingly ...
Here's a picture of it running on a Nokia E61:
of the Nokia Nseries and Eseries ...Study of Valhalla.Just noticed a few brief references to Valhalla, The Hobbit, and a few other Speccy titles in the book, 'Creative Computer Graphics' by Jankel & Mort…
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There are a few piccies also of Barmy Burgers, (by Blavy ... - sic ) VU 3D, and a graphics ... package that I dont recognise (A picture of a merry-go-round) It ... also gets a bit enthusiastic about ...Hacking games (and a couple DB updates)I've just been chatting to a mate about games, and we got on to the loveliness that is Introversion (the last of the "bedroom coders", alledgedly). …
... of the "bedroom coders", alledgedly). One of their games was "Uplink", a kind of ... simulation", and it reminded me of a few "hacking simulation" games ... know the kind of games... lists of phone numbers to ... . What's the actual state of these programs?
NOMAD Vs CibernoidI remember that one of the first games I played in spectrum was N.O.M.A.D. and a few months after a cousin of mine lended me Cibernoid... At the tim…
I remember that one of the first games I ... N.O.M.A.D. and a few months after a cousin of mine lended ... tought both games where kind of similar, but, for some ... 'm going to give them a test drive,
... probably why I have such a good opinion of it...)Deus ExSince we sometimes mention classic non-Spectrum games (and even the rubbish on the Commodore 64 ;) ) on this forum, how come we've never discussed De…
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A couple of years later, a sequel emerged. We were ... a situation that you'd otherwise have to think your way out of ... !) waited and waited for news of a Deus Ex 3. There were ...Which Emulator?I?m interested to know which emulator people use! Which one has the look and ?feel? of a real Spectrum and which one has the most accurate loading e…
I?m interested to know which emulator people use!
Which one has the look and ?feel? of a real Spectrum and which one has the most accurate loading emulation?
I?d be interested to know which ones you good people use!What`s your all time favourite three filmsWhat`s your all time favourite three films, stretch it out by all means if it`s hard to decide on just three. Wanting to watch some cool stuff over C…
... Great Escape - Never get sick of this :)
... seen it for a couple of decades... easily as ... brilliant as I`d remembered.... ... posting a complete list of your films couple of years ... back, and you had like L-O-A-D ...Urgent Help needed to fix this: calling all machine code gurusI am currently trying to write tutorials on the amazing Orfeus music composer by Proxima which allows you to do multi channel music through the beepe…
... the beeper.
Part of the app allows you to ... :
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adc a,d ...Housing Estates, a postmans view.1. Your gate must be closed at all times. Always. On Saturdays it is preferable if you also lock it / bolt it shut at the bottom. It shall be deemed …
... , several old hoovers, a trampoline, a tent, a rotting car with no ... for everything you can think of, including every free catalogue, ... be in when expecting delivery of a parcel. Even if you've ... forget to take your entourage of kids, dogs, grandparents and ...Best of the worstWhilst trying hard not to do any actual work, I started to ponder what are the best games by the worst software houses. When I used to pick up a spec…
... pick up a speccy mag and saw a review for a game, you ... by, say, Tynesoft, or one of the many budget labels, such ... would then come as a bit of a shock when the game turned ... been sent to them by a yet-to-be-discovered Ritman ... would be fun to have a play...When could Speccy have been born?Just a pondering excercise for those that know more about the different types of chips in the Spectrum than I. Whilst browsing the z80 page on wiki …
... about the different types of chips in the Spectrum ... fact that Sinclair was a small company and aiming at ... price or how many they`d sell. Could the Spectrum ... RAM in the Speccy was of a type that wasn`t ... .
anyways... I`d love to know, from those ...Developing the Spectrum ROMI'm working on some Z80 assembler for a Z80-based single board computer that I'm building. For the things that don't poke my hardware, I'm using a Sp…
... only 16K, that's a hell of a lot of code to load without ... the niceties of an assembler ... to develop the Spectrum? I'd imagine debugging would be accomplished ... stepping actual hardware (and a bunch of LEDs on the address/data ...Help understanding some z80 asmI'm trying to work out how to represent the structure of a "sprite" in the SAM as "Grabbed" by SmallC. I can see the assembler implementation but I …
... how to represent the structure of a "sprite" in the SAM ... plot mechanism (yuck) then doing a grab which is what I ... 6)
ld d,(ix+7)
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a bit more ambitious, but if ...Help me with a songCan anybody help me with the name of a song of the 80s, the most repeated senteces are Give me the other, give me the other, all the night! and then …
... help me with the name of a song of the 80s, the most ...Who knows how to program a "pathfinder"?Hi all. I like to play games like "Colour Lines" and I think, I will create a version of this game for the SAM Coupe. It looks easy - until this "dam…
... think, I will create a version of this game for the SAM ... " thing of a pathfinder routine, which finds a path from a point A to a point ... is closed.
Has anyone a routine or tip in Assembler ... ? The pathfinder should work in a 9 by 9 grid area ...Video capture of Spectrum games?I wasn't sure where to post this, but what are the options if you want to capture a video of a Spectrum game running? Is it possible to do it from a…
I wasn't sure where to post this, but what are the options if you want to capture a video of a Spectrum game running?
Is it possible to do it from an emulator?
Can it be done from the hardware itself somehow?Sending a Fax via my Scanner and ModemDoes anyone know of a GOOD FREE program that will let me use my scanner and modem to send out faxes?? I have had a look and can only find people wh…
Does anyone know of a GOOD FREE program that will let me use my scanner and modem to send out faxes??
I have had a look and can only find people who want to charge for suposed sharware.
Thanks in advance.Mode 2 Tile Editor SourceA Timex Mode 2 Tile Editor incorporating a byte mirror table. The compiled version is available in the CSSCGC 2008 collection from the WoS archive. …
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inc ...World of abusive drunks - share your abusive drunk stories. :)One time when I was getting the bus home from town, two really drunk women got on and started singing really obnoxiously loudly. Then, considering th…
... started shouting a lot of sectarian abuse at the tops of their voices ... Protestant and they were shouting a load of vile stuff about people ... other side of the bus, a bloke who was a bit of a mentalist and ... past the two of them, he slowly raised a gnarled, blue- ...RFC: 64 column font codeIn BASIC, type CLEAR 49999 then import the code at 50000. Then type RANDOMIZE USR 50000. This will create a new channel and attach stream #4 to it. A…
... a,$03 ; take account of streams -3 to -1
add a,a ; each of ... /> ld d,a ; store high byte of offset in D
ld a,b ; retrieve ... points to the first byte of a character in FONT
; DE ...Highest price of a Speccy gamePicked up from left field in the Mire Mare thread [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=14621"]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/…
... the highest amount paid for a game on Ebay? Or privately ...Name of GameI am looking for the first game I bought with my own pocket money, however I cannot remember the name. As far as I can remember you were in control o…
... were in control of a helicopter (or spaceship sort of thing) looking ... through the windscreen into a 3D sort of city (kind of ... like a maze). I ... on the windscreen. It was a budget game, poss. by ...
